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The Grinnell College newspaper since 1894Fri, 02 Dec 2016 14:47:03 +0000hourly1https://wordpress.org/?v=4.6.1Comment on Festival of Trees brightens up downtown Grinnell by Jeff Dickey-Chasinshttp://www.thesandb.com/community/festival-of-trees-brightens-up-downtown-grinnell.html/comment-page-1#comment-302160
Fri, 02 Dec 2016 14:47:03 +0000http://www.thesandb.com/?p=22914#comment-302160ACtually, this article is wrong. The Festival of Trees is being held tonight, Friday, starting at 5:30 in Drake Community Library. Come down and check out the decorated trees, the Middle School choir, band, and lots of other fun stuff!!
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Tue, 29 Nov 2016 20:34:09 +0000http://www.thesandb.com/?p=22677#comment-302159Good Post, when i start reading i start imaging as i was there..:D

Thank you

]]>Comment on Generation Apocalypse by Martin Campbell '13http://www.thesandb.com/opinion/generation-apocalypse.html/comment-page-1#comment-302157
Wed, 16 Nov 2016 01:07:52 +0000http://www.thesandb.com/?p=22687#comment-302157Considering the countless false predictions of impending doom throughout history and across cultures, it’s fair to say every generation is fascinated by the apocalypse. To a certain extent, we all go through a stage of wishing we could bear witness to the end of the world—there’s even a whole theological subfield dedicated to it: eschatology. Apocalyptic thinking is probably a critical element of the human condition—after all, as the only species capable of contemplating our own mortality, you could credibly argue we genuinely can’t help it.

The question is, why? Well, for one it’s an easy way to make us feel like we matter—every generation wants to feel like they’re special, and what could be more unique than living in the end times? Furthermore, despite our impressive cognitive capabilities, humans remain incredibly short-sighted and self-centered. Long after we’re all gone, the world will continue to turn, but can any of us really truly imagine a future in which we longer exist?

]]>Comment on Campus responds to Trump victory by Craighttp://www.thesandb.com/news/campus-responds-to-trump-victory.html/comment-page-1#comment-302156
Tue, 15 Nov 2016 14:29:16 +0000http://www.thesandb.com/?p=22762#comment-302156“…Usual rules about presidents and institutions not engaging in a political contest needed to be thrown out the window. Finally what I acknowledged was, in order to achieve the goal of helping a lot of students deal with a really complicated and painful issue … that was worth the smaller chance that a smaller number of students might be hurt by our response…”

This statement from Dr. Raynard Kington, the President of a liberal arts college that prides itself, make that defines itself, as a beacon of inclusiveness and diversity, flies directly in the face of those very principles. If, as a society, we are to make decisions and policy that may hurt the minority as a concession to the feelings of the majority, then we must completely rethink the very tenets of the Progressive ideology. Transgender bathrooms immediately come to mind; certainly a concession to an extremely small minority that, absolutely, offends the senses of a much larger majority. And yet, nothing short of Federal Law enforces this provision.

Perhaps the aforementioned “…usual rules…” are there for a reason. When you make it your aim to preach tolerance, your words must be supported by your actions.

]]>Comment on Group volunteers at Standing Rock by Mike Vitaiolihttp://www.thesandb.com/news/group-volunteers-at-standing-rock.html/comment-page-1#comment-302154
Sun, 13 Nov 2016 01:19:00 +0000http://www.thesandb.com/?p=22751#comment-302154The people as a whole are more important than the individual! On another note, I’m a firm believer that the President should be chosen by the Popular vote. In that regard, Hillary should be our President. As it stands, let’s give Trump a chance.
]]>Comment on Editorial Endorsements: Let’s Move Forward by rickhttp://www.thesandb.com/article/editorial-endorsements-lets-move-forward.html/comment-page-1#comment-302153
Fri, 11 Nov 2016 15:11:45 +0000http://www.thesandb.com/?p=22664#comment-302153Looks like you went 0 for 3!
]]>Comment on The Grinnell beer die-aries by Leagueplayerhttp://www.thesandb.com/sports/the-grinnell-beer-die-aries.html/comment-page-1#comment-302151
Thu, 03 Nov 2016 20:22:32 +0000http://www.thesandb.com/?p=20767#comment-302151A beer die becomes more developed, players are becoming more skilled catchers. Though the die league players are becoming better throwers as well as a group, games between highly skilled players are taking longer and longer to finish. Overhand throwing helps alleviate this problem some, although some games still take two hours.
]]>Comment on Winter sports prepare for season by Raef La Friendshttp://www.thesandb.com/sports/22399.html/comment-page-1#comment-302148
Thu, 20 Oct 2016 21:07:07 +0000http://www.thesandb.com/?p=22399#comment-302148I got just 3 words for the hoop season: Its gon be turnt up 2 B so lit 4 deez brahs.
]]>Comment on 10/10 committee decides on new event by matthewhttp://www.thesandb.com/news/1010-committee-decides-on-new-event.html/comment-page-1#comment-302145
Thu, 06 Oct 2016 05:50:03 +0000http://www.thesandb.com/?p=22339#comment-302145I like how Andrea Conner is not all that confident about the success of this event…
]]>Comment on Goat Pros go to work in State Parks by Dr. Necessitorhttp://www.thesandb.com/community/goat-pros-go-to-work-in-state-parks.html/comment-page-1#comment-302144
Tue, 04 Oct 2016 23:39:24 +0000http://www.thesandb.com/?p=22306#comment-302144Goats are the GOAT!
]]>Comment on Back to school with funky fall fashion by Earl Berksonhttp://www.thesandb.com/article/back-to-school-with-funky-fall-fashion.html/comment-page-1#comment-302143
Sat, 01 Oct 2016 23:45:18 +0000http://www.thesandb.com/?p=21762#comment-302143Does the author also express herself through funky fashion?
]]>Comment on Veterans Memorial may be saved by State of Iowa: Central Park construction threatens building that honors Grinnell’s veterans by Jeff Dickey-Chasinshttp://www.thesandb.com/community/veterans-memorial-may-be-saved-by-state-of-iowa-central-park-construction-threatens-building-that-honors-grinnells-veterans.html/comment-page-1#comment-302142
Fri, 30 Sep 2016 16:07:58 +0000http://www.thesandb.com/?p=22296#comment-302142Folks, this is an incredibly one-sided article. Those supporting the retention of the building are in the minority in Grinnell. Talk to the City Council or the City Manager or even a few younger vets to get a different perspective!
]]>Comment on What Happened to the Grand Ol’ Party? by Kevin A. Kellyhttp://www.thesandb.com/opinion/what-happened-to-the-grand-ol-party.html/comment-page-1#comment-302139
Mon, 26 Sep 2016 09:01:57 +0000http://www.thesandb.com/?p=22052#comment-302139Jacob Javits considered the GOP the party of the national interest. On issues spanning from the abolition of slavery, the Homestead Act, land grant colleges, public investments in rail and canals, safety standards on food and medicines, women’s suffrage, construction of the Interstate highways, civil rights, lower taxes, and personal freedom, I too, prefer the GOP. There have always been liberals and conservatives in the party, with moderates like Lincoln , TR, Eisenhower and Ford acting as referees in the middle. Tensions between these factions have always been with us as a party. It is a political party where, on post New Deal principles, Barry Goldwater opposed Federal intrusion into civil rights, while Everett Dirksen and Jacob Javits, drawing on the GOP’s historic support of social fairness crossed the aisle with LBJ to pass it. Throughout its history, the GOP has been both pro-business and an advocate for the individual as a consumer and worker. GOP suspicions of outsize power accumulation was varied, from labor unions, to government bureaucracies and corporate trusts.
Personally, I support marriage equality, reproductive choice and the right of an individual to die with dignity. I also support responsible gun ownership, low taxes, and a respect for our countries’ traditions . If that makes me a liberal Republican, so be it.
]]>Comment on Progressive Minds, Trashy Mouths by Crosbyhttp://www.thesandb.com/opinion/progressive-minds-trashy-mouths.html/comment-page-1#comment-302137
Wed, 21 Sep 2016 18:41:57 +0000http://www.thesandb.com/?p=21891#comment-302137This article reminds me of the lyrics to the song “Easy to be Hard” from the Broadway musical “Hair”: (Especially the verse that begins “And especially people who care about strangers…”)

How can people be so heartless
How can people be so cruel
Easy to be hard
Easy to be cold

How can people have no feelings
How can they ignore their friends
Easy to be proud
Easy to say no

And especially people
Who care about strangers
Who care about evil
And social injustice
Do you only
Care about the bleeding crowd?
How about a needing friend?
I need a friend

How can people be so heartless
You know I’m hung up on you
Easy to give in
Easy to help out

And especially people
Who care about strangers
Who say they care about social injustice
Do you only
Care about the bleeding crowd
How about a needing friend?
I need a friend

How can people have no feelings
How can they ignore their friends
Easy to be hard
Easy to be cold
Easy to be proud
Easy to say no

]]>Comment on Student produced “Spelling Bee” promises laughs by Cindy Bateshttp://www.thesandb.com/arts/student-produced-spelling-bee-promises-laughs.html/comment-page-1#comment-302129
Fri, 13 May 2016 20:23:41 +0000http://www.thesandb.com/?p=21513#comment-302129Shout out to student Amaris Bates for the choreography of the show. Her mom thinks she was amazing too!
]]>Comment on Letter to the Editor: The Changing Needs of Grinnellians’ Wellness by 420weedfountainhttp://www.thesandb.com/opinion/letter-to-the-editor-the-changing-needs-of-grinnellians-wellness.html/comment-page-1#comment-301257
Thu, 05 May 2016 23:17:00 +0000http://www.thesandb.com/?p=21370#comment-301257When will Grinnell ever have free, unlimited access to oncampus counseling, therapy, psychiatric services? most schools do this.
]]>Comment on Kington releases new plan post Posse decision by 420weedsmuthttp://www.thesandb.com/article/kington-releases-new-plan-post-posse-decision.html/comment-page-1#comment-301256
Thu, 05 May 2016 23:14:46 +0000http://www.thesandb.com/?p=21393#comment-301256the idea that the common reading list was the 2nd item on the list and that there was no commitment to explicitly expand scholarships and financial aid for students from underrepresented backgrounds speaks to how basic/vanilla/diet his plan is. It mostly felt like an amalgamation of stuff they were doing otherwise and calling it part of their plan for diversity. Marginalized communities at grinnell need outspoken faculty to hold the administration accountable. Folding student affairs into academic affairs, transforming SA’s into RA’s and eliminating Posse all share a common goal in eliminating insitutions which support and advocate on student’s behalf as opposed to sending them an email when their grades are low (academic affairs).
]]>Comment on The Changing Face of Online Strangers by Alumhttp://www.thesandb.com/opinion/the-changing-face-of-online-strangers.html/comment-page-1#comment-301031
Mon, 02 May 2016 22:46:52 +0000http://www.thesandb.com/?p=21348#comment-301031“The Internet has changed the way we look at strangers.” Indeed. Millennials have the lowest trust of any generation (see 2014 Pew survey). Empathy among college students dropped precipitously over the past 20 years (plenty of studies on this). Social capital and bridging capital aren’t doing so well (see Robert Putnam). It doesn’t look like the Internet is exactly helping create social forms that are fully positive substitutes for those social forms the technology is replacing. Let’s look forward to a future that’s even more narcissistic and atomized than what came before it.
]]>Comment on The politics of penetration from a lesbian perspective by pippahttp://www.thesandb.com/opinion/the-politics-of-penetration-from-a-lesbian-perspective.html/comment-page-1#comment-300902
Sun, 01 May 2016 15:56:16 +0000http://www.thesandb.com/?p=2344#comment-300902I am trans/lesbian. For many years now. Forget dildos etc. The most powerful expression, I been blessed with, is partner, soul-mate, buying and presenting me with a nice pretty bra. Its not sexual. I wear it , first because it is a gift from a person, fellow-female, whom I love and trust, second, not really second, I feel that hug always. I hate to take it of. That another creature on this earth feels that way towards me. This, speaks of love and I love every second of the continuum of hugs. I am theirs. No sex, just hugs and understanding.
]]>Comment on Cal Froikin exhibit explores space by adminhttp://www.thesandb.com/article/cal-froikin-exhibit-explores-space.html/comment-page-1#comment-300718
Fri, 29 Apr 2016 22:18:33 +0000http://www.thesandb.com/?p=21330#comment-300718Oops!
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Fri, 29 Apr 2016 22:03:27 +0000http://www.thesandb.com/?p=21330#comment-300716Typo spelling my last name.
]]>Comment on USDA funds monarch habitats by Paul Cherubinihttp://www.thesandb.com/community/usda-funds-monarch-habitats.html/comment-page-1#comment-300682
Fri, 29 Apr 2016 14:28:31 +0000http://www.thesandb.com/?p=21387#comment-300682The USDA is fleecing the taxpayers via spending their money on a milkweed plant and monarch butterfly population increase scheme that will not actually boost their populations even 1/100th of one percent. To increase the fall migrant monarch population by just ONE percent, for example, 40 million new Asclepias syriaca milkweed plants would have to be planted and successfully established in wildscape situations (e.g. farm ditch roadsides in the upper Midwest). Is that logistically possible? Absolutely not even remotely possible.
]]>Comment on Beloved Professor Astrid Henry recovering well by matt wilchhttp://www.thesandb.com/news/beloved-professor-astrid-henry-recovering-well.html/comment-page-1#comment-300353
Mon, 25 Apr 2016 00:38:14 +0000http://www.thesandb.com/?p=18576#comment-300353We all await Astrid’s return to our lives.
]]>Comment on Breakout Chicago hip-hop artist Mick Jenkins to make waves by Alex ruizhttp://www.thesandb.com/arts/breakout-chicago-hip-hop-artist-mick-jenkins-to-make-waves.html/comment-page-1#comment-299450
Fri, 15 Apr 2016 14:42:04 +0000http://www.thesandb.com/?p=21155#comment-299450It’s “Hurt everybody” bro.
]]>Comment on To overhand or to underhand: the beer die question by Jose Colomahttp://www.thesandb.com/sports/to-overhand-or-to-underhand-the-beer-die-question.html/comment-page-1#comment-299422
Fri, 15 Apr 2016 04:59:02 +0000http://www.thesandb.com/?p=21118#comment-299422You forgot to add CIROC
]]>Comment on Cultural Films Committee brews up Cafe Ta’amon by Katya Gibel Mevorachhttp://www.thesandb.com/features/cultural-films-committee-brews-up-cafe-taamon.html/comment-page-1#comment-298879
Fri, 08 Apr 2016 20:39:54 +0000http://www.thesandb.com/?p=21049#comment-298879Great report but correction: I have enjoyed being 2015-16 Chair of Cultural Film Committee with Prof Raquel Greene and Prof Deborah Michaels. We don’t yet know who will be on the committee for 2016-17 – the composition changes from year to year. Many thanks to all who have attended the 6 films we have screened this year; there is one more film on 1 May https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WtWmFyKcbyQ
]]>Comment on Dance company explores AIDS crisis through movement and multimedia by K Muljihttp://www.thesandb.com/arts/dance-company-explores-aids-crisis-through-movement-and-multimedia.html/comment-page-1#comment-298853
Fri, 08 Apr 2016 09:37:49 +0000http://www.thesandb.com/?p=21026#comment-298853The 1st Indian dancer to explore the issue of AIDS was kathak artist Subodh Rathod back in 1991, in London UK. The piece was called ‘LIFE’
]]>Comment on Letter to the Editor: Grinnell’s Climate Change by Perry Thomashttp://www.thesandb.com/opinion/letter-to-the-editor-grinnells-climate-change.html/comment-page-1#comment-297402
Tue, 22 Mar 2016 15:01:36 +0000http://www.thesandb.com/?p=20939#comment-297402Help show your support, follow Divest Grinnell on facebook and twitter:https://www.facebook.com/divestgrinnellhttps://twitter.com/DivestGrinnell
and sign their petition:https://campaigns.gofossilfree.org/petitions/Fossil_Free_Grinnell
]]>Comment on The Grinnell beer die-aries by diealumnhttp://www.thesandb.com/sports/the-grinnell-beer-die-aries.html/comment-page-1#comment-297166
Sun, 20 Mar 2016 03:25:30 +0000http://www.thesandb.com/?p=20767#comment-297166overhand being illegal is one of the rules
]]>Comment on Destroy All Smartphones by Alum '12http://www.thesandb.com/opinion/destroy-all-smartphones.html/comment-page-1#comment-296788
Wed, 16 Mar 2016 03:13:30 +0000http://www.thesandb.com/?p=20931#comment-296788We have cause to be concerned of the social effects of newer technologies on how we interact with one another. Did you know that in the past 30 years colleges students’ empathy has measurably declined 40%, and especially in the past 10 years? There’s a lot more to be worried about too. I’ll refer you to the book “Reclaiming Conversation” by MIT psychologist Sherry Turkle, who has studied digital technologies for decades. There’s a good conversation to be had about how we can limit some of the adverse effects.

BUT instead of asking a serious social question, you simply mocked it. You associated the least skepticism with conservatives (Chick-Fil-A is code for conservative Christian “Red Team”). That’s just juvenile. There are excellent secular humanistic reasons to be deeply troubled by some of the research out there. Perhaps you should give it a look.